The Titans have agreed to terms with sixth-round running back Kalel Mullings, Aaron Wilson of KPRC reports.
Mullings will receive a four-year, $4.385 million deal.
The Titans made him the 188th overall pick, and he will join Tony Pollard, Tyjae Spears and Julius Chestnut in the running backs room.
Mullings will wear No. 28, the same number Chris Johnson wore during a six-year career in Tennessee when he rushed for 7,965 yards and scored 50 rushing touchdowns. Mullings is familiar with the Titans’ recent history at the position.
“Derrick Henry is a future Hall of Fame running back, amazing player,” Mullings said, via Jim Wyatt of the team website. “But it’s funny, when I was 5, 6 years old playing Madden, Madden 09, Madden 10, Chris Johnson was a cheat code. He was my favorite player and just being able to follow in those footsteps and put on that baby blue is amazing.”
At Michigan, Mullings ran for 948 yards and 12 touchdowns in 12 games in 2024. He finished his college career with 1,210 rushing yards and 16 touchdowns on 235 carries.
The Titans announced a handful of roster moves on Wednesday afternoon.
They confirmed the previously reported signing of defensive lineman James Lynch along with announcing that they have waived wide receiver Tay Martin and linebacker Kyron Johnson. Both players were waived with injury designations.
Martin had one catch for 49 yards and a touchdown in his lone appearance of the 2024 season. He played three games with the 49ers over the 2022 and 2023 seasons.
Johnson did not play in the regular season last year. He had eight tackles in 16 games for the Eagles in 2022 and he made six appearances for the Steelers in 2023.
The Titans have brought back one of their defensive contributors.
Per Ian Rapoport of NFL Media, Tennessee is re-signing defensive tackle James Lynch to a one-year deal.
Lynch, 26, spent last season with Tennessee, appearing in all 17 games. He was on the field for 23 percent of the club’s defensive snaps and seven percent of special teams snaps.
Lynch finished the year with 20 total tackles, 1.0 sacks, and a pair of passes defensed.
A Vikings fourth-round pick in 2020, Lynch has appeared in 54 career games with three starts.
Titans (Oilers) legend Warren Moon recently said he has seen “futuristic” new uniforms for the Titans. Apparently, those new uniforms are not coming in the immediate future.
Jim Wyatt of the Titans’ official website wrote this in a mailbag item: “I was standing right in front of Warren Moon when he first mentioned publicly the possibility of new uniforms while in town for the Cam Ward presser. Then I saw where Warren doubled down [on] the topic over the weekend when he was at the Kentucky Derby.”
Wyatt said that the team’s uniforms won’t change for 2025. He said he hasn’t seen any new uniforms, and no one has told him anything is “official.”
Still, Moon saw something. Maybe he was off on the timing. But there apparently was something to see. And a possible new set of uniforms is coming, at some point.
Keep that in mind when buying the current jersey.
In late March, the Titans announced that their “Titans blue” alternate jersey will become part of their new home uniform. In early May, Oilers/Titans (never played for the Titans) legend Warren Moon said the Titans will be unveiling new uniforms.
This year.
“The Tennessee Titans have new uniforms coming,” Moon said on the Up & Adams show, via Jared Dublin of CBSSports.com. “A whole new set. And I’ve seen glimpses of them.”
How do they look?
“Pretty good,” Moon said. “They fit with the times but they’re also a little futuristic. They will advance with the times. We’ll put it that way.”
If the Titans are indeed unveiling a “whole new set” of new uniforms for the upcoming season, they’ve done a very good job of not making people aware of it. Usually, the new uniforms are released at or around the time of the draft, so that: (1) the first-round pick will be holding up the new jersey; and (2) people will start buying the new jersey.
For those buying the brand-new Cam Ward jersey, will they be getting the new design when they open their package? Or will their new purchase soon be rendered obsolete?
That’s one of the biggest consumer-related concerns we have when teams are rolling out new uniforms. Sometimes, they aren’t as transparent as they should be when it comes to the people who are buying the soon-to-be outdated jersey without realizing a new one will soon be released.
And this isn’t coming from some random person. It’s coming from Warren Moon, a franchise legend who was in the house recently to officially grant Ward permission to wear Moon’s retired jersey No. 1.
